I wanted to ask you if you know of any source that offers us any insight to the age of Solomon’s son (I’m assuming Rehoboam) when he shared these proverbs with him. We are assembling a class to teach parents about talking to their children about sex and sexual development and were hoping to use […]
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Many preachers have used Genesis 2:18-25 as a selected passage to read at weddings. On a number of occasions I have heard a pastor talk about the fact that God selected a “rib” in Gen. 2:21 to use to “fashion” the woman. I have heard several pastors claim that there is significance for the selection
Leviticus 26 provides a key to advancing the Abrahamic and Mosaic covenants by showing how the two relate to each other. The parenthetical nature of the chapter shows its inter-covenantal character in six areas: (1) covenant, (2) law, (3) Yahweh, (4) promise, (5) repentance, and (6) revelation. The word for “covenant” used therein always relates
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I’m starting to think about where God is leading me to serve Him in the world. Sometimes in closed countries missionaries apparently gain entrance by telling the government that they are coming to do linguistic study or literacy or some other service. Is it biblical for Christians to hide their intent to proclaim the Gospel?
Sanctification is the work of the Holy Spirit and Scripture. This message was delivered on Feb 11, 2010 in The Masters Seminary chapel from various scriptures. [wpaudio url=”/files/audio/messages/2010-02-11_TMS.mp3″ text=”Dr Bill Barrick, Sanctification – the work of the Holy Spirit and Scripture”]
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Theologically and biblically speaking, penal substitution refers to God’s gift of His Son to undergo the penalty of death as a substitute for fallen humanity, recent efforts to deny that teaching notwithstanding. The OT offers many examples of cases in which divine judicial action resulted in the deaths of offenders who violated God’s standards of
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Scholars are still puzzled over the appearance of “Ur of the Chaldeans” in Gen 11:28 and 31. Proposed solutions to the problem have either called it an anachronism or an example of post-Mosaic textual updating, or else they hold that Moses wrote the text just as it stands because he knew about the Chaldeans in
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This message was delivered at The Masters College Chapel on February 16, 2009 from Job 33. [wpaudio url=”/files/audio/messages/2009-02-16_TMC.mp3″ text=”Dr Bill Barrick, The Ancient Gospel”]
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This message was delivered in The Masters Seminary chapel on February 5, 2009 from selected scriptures. [wpaudio url=”/files/audio/messages/2009-02-05_TMS.mp3″ text=”Dr Bill Barrick, Penal Substitution in the Old Testament”]
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Students of the Bible often make mistakes that can be avoided if they are aware of errors that others have committed. One of the errors is the “Evidential Fallacy” which fails to approach the text with the presumption that it is accurate. Another mistake is the “Superior Knowledge Fallacy” which occurs when one, in approaching
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